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How long should selectors persist with potential talent?

Selectors often are faced with a dilemma after a budding talent plays a few matches only to not justify his talent with his performances. To find out how much rope selectors have given players who have ended up perfoming quite well, I took out the figures of all batsmen who averaged above 40 for India [...]

Waqar v/s Pollock v/s Donald

A few days ago, there was a discussion on a cricket site regarding who is the better bowler amongst Waqar/Pollock/Donald. Though very good bowlers in their era, they failed to break into the all time great list of Marshall, Akram, Ambrose, Mc Grath ,Warne amongst a few others.

Donald had sheer [...]

Sachin’s centuries and India’s defeats – A statistical look

India’s defeat against South Africa today was very painful, not because of the loss per se, but because we squandered two wonderful opportunities to win it. One in the 40th over where despite being 267 for 1, India collapsed to 296 all out. And the other in the death overs where tighter bowling could have [...]